If you’re in the Los Angeles area this summer, please join me for this year’s iMovie Bootcamp at the Los Angeles County Office of Education, July 20th and 21st. Participants will learn how to use iMovie ’09 thoroughly, including advanced features like green screen and picture in picture, and have the opportunity to edit pre-shot …
Category: Video in the Classroom
Royalty Free Photos, Music, and Video List (Updated)
Here is my updated list of Royalty Free Resources for multimedia projects, including photo and music options. I’ve also included this list as a permanent page on my blog, accessible on the right hand side under pages. I’ve tried to list only options that I’ve actually used. Most of these royalty free options require attribute …
Video in the Classroom Carnival #6
It’s time once again to highlight some of the best posts and resources I’ve seen in and around the blogosphere that feature video production and digital storytelling in the classroom. Classroom Production Examples Karen Thompson shared these movies by Cindy Huson which are a simple yet ingenious and amusing way of teaching vocabulary words. Steve Katz …
Common Core Digital Storytelling Educational Policy Educational Technology Video in the Classroom Workshops Upcoming
Higher Level Technology Use
For my upcoming presentation, “Digital CPR: Bring Your Reading Series to Life with Technology” for LAUSD’s Best Practices Conference on March 19th, I created this illustration which I will use to talk about higher level technology use. I will talk about incorporating multimedia in the classroom as something all teachers should be doing but I …
3 Ways to Download Movies from Youtube
I decided to update my list of tools for downloading youtube movies because I’ve discovered some new favorite tools and others no longer work. 1. The low-tech way. Load the movie, close the laptop (but not the window) and bring the computer to school. If you’re not comfortable with technology, this is the way for …
Video in the Classroom Mini-Carnival #5
Here are a few new examples of classroom videomaking sites worth checking out from around the web. Elementary Mr. Alonso’s 4th grade classroom. I particularly enjoyed, The Secret to the CSTs. Mrs. McKillop’s 4th grade classroom in Elk Grove. Here is their award-winning movie, The Power of One. Middle School Mr. Mayo’s Middle School Films. …
The Low Tech Way to Show Youtube Movies in School
By request, I’m posting the steps to showing youtube movies in class the “low tech” way. For those with the technological know-how, I prefer using the firefox plugin “Download Helper” or a site like zamzar.com, however, this is for teachers with little tech know-how and a laptop. Of course, all of these methods are designed …
More on Copyrights, Fair Use, and the Classroom
Since my presentation, “Steal This Preso: Copyrights, Fair Use, and Pirates in the Classroom” I’m on the lookout for classroom copyright resources to share with you. I found these blog posts interesting: 1. Mr. Mayo has a skype visit from professor Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, who talks about remixing and the classroom. 2. …
Video in the Classroom: FERPA CONCERNS
I received the following question by e-mail: Can you point me in the right direction or have you encountered issues regarding the sharing of classroom video with parents. A school district lawyer is arguing that sharing video with a parent of her child interacting in the classroom constitutes a violation of the FERPA rights of …
Digital Storytelling Educational Technology Fluency Independent Work Time Reading Comprehension Reading Fluency Video in the Classroom Workshops Upcoming
RTI (Response to Intervention) A Complete Apple Workflow
Thank you to those of you who attended my workshop, “RTI: A Complete Apple Workflow” at the CUE conference this weekend. I spoke about using Apple Software to address your Response to Intervention program. This post contains the links, resources, and ideas that I shared. Rather than simply posting the keynote file (which is …